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[danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Blog] Need something more to worry about?: Take a look at Alfred Crosby's excellent book, America's Forgotten Pandemic for a good look at the impact of influenza in the USA during the pandemic. If you can't find Crosby's book, try John Barry's The Great Influenza, a more recent and inferior book, but the chapters on the pandemic in Philadelphia give an excellent idea of the impact of the pandemic.

 [Adfunk Health Life] World health body probes reports on China's use of flu drug: At the weekend, the Washington Post reported that Chinese farmers, acting with government approval, tried to suppress major bird flu outbreaks among chickens with the drug "amantadine", possibly making it useless in fighting human influenza.

[Avian Flu - What we need to know] Human bird flu case in Indonesia: The farmworker was first tested in late March after the epidemic spread to Sulawesi and killed at least 25,000 chickens. That outbreak prompted officials to limit the transfer of poultry off the island and take blood samples from laborers, veterinarians and others exposed to sick chickens.

 [Girlscientist.blogspot.com] Living the Scientific Life (or Scientist, Interrupted): Avian ...: Modernizing poultry farming techniques should require farmers to be taught how to identify the most important routes by which avian influenza can gain access to their flocks and to assist them by providing necessary funding and materials to prevent that. Additionally, because the rapid growth of intensive farming practices are mirrored by the increased incidence of a plethora of “crowd diseases”, such as avian influenza, this means that development of livestock farming methods in the region must be examined very carefully.

[Weblog.viet.net] VietNet Weblog - Avian influenza update - Vietnam: Avian influenza update - Vietnam The problem has not gone away. influenza victims have eaten or lived with sick chickens but officials .

 [En.wikipedia.org] Avian influenza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: It is feared that if the avian influenza virus undergoes antigenic shift with a human influenza virus, the new subtype created could be both highly contagious andhighly lethal in humans. Such a subtype could cause a global influenza pandemic,similar to the Spanish Flu that killed over 20 million people in 1918 (thougha variety of sources quote average figures even higher, up to 100 million in some cases).

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